Autograph letter signed "Bachelor Boy" : [n.p.], to Mollie [J. Holland in Cadiz], 1856 Dec. 15.

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Autograph letter signed "Bachelor Boy" : [n.p.], to Mollie [J. Holland in Cadiz], 1856 Dec. 15.

Of an intimate and personal nature.

1 item (10 p.) ; (8vo)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7182741

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Holland, Mollie J.,

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Custer's paternal ancestors, Paulus and Gertrude Küster, came to the North American English colonies around 1693 from the Rhineland in Germany, probably among thousands of Palatines whose passage was arranged by the English government to gain settlers in New York and Pennsylvania. According to family letters, Custer was named after George Armstrong, a minister, in his devout mother's hope that her son might join the clergy. Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, to Emanuel Henry Custer (1806...